The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-07
STATE TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.
Resolutions Passed at the Late State Con-
Vention.

At the annual meeting of the State Temperance
Alliance, which was held in Baltimore last week,
the following resolutions were adopted
We, the Maryland State Temperance Alliance,
in Fourteenth Annual Convention assembled, con-
graduate our fellow. laborers in the temperance
reform upon the results accomplished and the
growth of temperance sentiment everywhere dur
ing the past year. We reaffirm our position as
follows: The traffic in alcoholic beverages is a
dishonor to Christian civilization, inimcal to the
best interests of society, political wrong of I'M
equaled enormity, rebelling against restraint and
defying regulation. What is morally wrong and
socially injurious should not be sanctioned either
by high or a low license. Therefore
First. The interests of State and nation demand
the absolute prohibition by constitutional provi-
sion, penal statutes and the enforcing by the au-
thor.ies, of the manufacture importation and sale
of alcoholic beverages
Second. The issuing by the general government
of liquor licenses special tax receipts in prohi
bition and local option counties throws the mora
influence of the federal power on the side of the
liquor traffic. and is a serious hndrance to educa-
tional temperance work. The government, whose
influence should be on the side of the conscience
and integrity of the country, cannot plead to lega
rights in justification of a moral wrong.
Third. While the prohibition of the liquor traffic
does not conflict with other questions that concern
the Wefare OF the state, IL OVersnauOWS tnem al
in the magnitude of the results that will follow it;
settlement, and no question of more vital impor.
lance can be considered by the constitutional con
vention soon to assemble in Maryland. There
fore, in the interests of the State, demand thai
prohibitory clause be incorporated in the organic
law to be submitted to the voters of the State by
that body.
Fourth In order to achieve success in the great
work of securing constitutional prohibition it is
essential that all our forces be united. This Ali
ance, being non sectarian and non partisan, and
representing as it does oil classes of temperance
people, urges that in the great struggle that is i'm
pending in this State all citizens of every party
should unite in earnest and persistent effort to Sc
cure it. We, therefore, appeal to the patriotism
and intelligence of the people and ask that with
out regard to party, creed, they consecratt
their energies to the accomplishment of this bene
ficient reform.
Fifth. Both labor and capital should unite in
this movement against the baleful liquor traffic
inasmuch as it is the robber of wages and profits
the fomenter of discomfort and strife and the de.
stroyer of their mutual prosperity. No other leg
islation would moro heathily stimulate the con-
sumption which necessitates production, increase
the demand for industrial products and insure as
much of comfort to labor and capital than would
the prohibition of the traffic in alcoholic beverages
Sixth. We crave also the cooperation of the
pulpit the bar and the press in this effort to over
throw the great destroyer.